Gena Rowlands quotes
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“After you play a part, you think of it as your own.”
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“People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.”
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“You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.”
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“Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.”
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“all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.”
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“Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].”
-- Gena RowlandsSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“[John Cassavetes] came backstage afterwards and introduced himself and we talked a bit, and then went for a little coffee at the Russian Tea Room next door. It just...started.”
-- Gena RowlandsSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.”
-- Gena RowlandsSource : Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.
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“So I went home and I told my mom that I wanted to quit and be an actress and she said, “Huh, that sounds fascinating. It’s wonderful!” And I told my father and he literally said, “I don’t care if you want to be an elephant trainer if it makes you happy.””
-- Gena RowlandsSource : Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.
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“A Woman Under the Influence was my favorite. I loved doing that. And it was challenging.”
-- Gena RowlandsSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.”
-- Gena RowlandsSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.”
-- Gena RowlandsSource : "Rowlands celebrates 6 decades in film with honorary Oscar". The Associated Press interview, www.arabnews.com. November 12, 2015.
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“I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.”
-- Gena RowlandsSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.”
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“It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.”
-- Gena RowlandsSource : Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.
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“John [Cassavetes] loved actors. He gave them a lot of freedom. So if something came up that a certain actor just felt at the moment and said - that kind of improvisation he would accept. He gave very little direction.”
-- Gena RowlandsSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I only watch my movies that I make once, so I can just see how it hangs together, but after that, I don't watch them again. A lot of people have disappeared from Earth that you've worked with, and they make me sort of sad once in a while, and there's really no necessity for me to watch them. I've made them, and it's on film and that's that.”
-- Gena RowlandsSource : "Rowlands celebrates 6 decades in film with honorary Oscar". The Associated Press interview, www.arabnews.com. November 12, 2015.
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“It was a very hard play [Woman Under the Influence] to do every night. And John Cassavetes said, "Don't worry. Don't even think about it, you're right. I hadn't thought of that." He said, "Just forget it."”
-- Gena RowlandsSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.”
-- Gena RowlandsSource : Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.
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“I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.”
-- Gena RowlandsSource : Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.
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“John Cassavetes was a year ahead of me but we met there. What you do when you are at a school for drama, you do a play as opposed to a final. Anyone who wanted to come could just come. So he came, and I can't remember the name of the play, of course, it was a long time ago.”
-- Gena RowlandsSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“John Cassavetes wrote A Woman Under the Influence as a play. He said, "Hey, I wrote you a play." And I said, "Great, let's read it." I read it and I said, "John, I couldn't do this every night and twice on Wednesday and Saturday".”
-- Gena RowlandsSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.”
-- Gena RowlandsSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“So after the Shadows he acted and directed. And it worked out very nicely. And he wrote, obviously.”
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